Four former foster youth, now adults, talk about how psychiatric medications impacted their childhoods, and life after meds.

An exclusive interview with Bandy X. Lee, a psychiatrist who risked her career to warn the public of Trump’s mental unfitness for office.

Therapists and former foster youth talk from their own experience about what works to support healing – beyond psychiatric medications.

A leaked document from the Trump administration's budget office reveals plans for massive cutting of mental health and addiction programs. And demonstrators protested Trump policies in 700 rallies.

Prescribing to foster youth of psych meds has fallen since judges were tasked with oversight. Still, says one, "constant vigilance" is needed.

Caregiving 'unlocks new parts of yourself' and expands who you are, even if it is often lonely and exhausting.

Alicia Bissonette, a 21-year-old living among the lakes and foothills of western Maine, recalls her teenage years in foster care as a heavily medicated, crises-filled blur. After years of childhood ...

This week and next, we are publishing an investigative series, Medicated in Foster Care: Who’s Looking Out? by The Imprint, a national nonprofit news outlet covering child welfare and youth justice.

Greetings, MindSite News Readers. In today’s Daily, one district finds that school cell phone bans can improve student behaviors and outcomes – but not all on their own. A highly respected Bay Area ...

A psychologist writes to say that our report on a randomized clinical trial for Therabot, an AI therapy chatbot, overlooked methodological weaknesses and researcher bias.

A subway mental health nurse evaluates mentally ill people on New York platforms – and can remove them against their will. Will it help them?

Good Tuesday morning! Some benefits of protest: Collective action may be good for your mental health. Liberal San Francisco swerves right on harm reduction. In-hospital addiction consultations can ...